1 In illo tempore audivit Herodes tetrarcha famam Jesu: 2 et ait pueris suis: Hic est Joannes Baptista: ipse surrexit a mortuis, et ideo virtutes operantur in eo. 3 Herodes enim tenuit Joannem, et alligavit eum: et posuit in carcerem propter Herodiadem uxorem fratris sui. 4 Dicebat enim illi Joannes: Non licet tibi habere eam. 5 Et volens illum occidere, timuit populum: quia sicut prophetam eum habebant. 6 Die autem natalis Herodis saltavit filia Herodiadis in medio, et placuit Herodi: 7 unde cum juramento pollicitus est ei dare quodcumque postulasset ab eo. 8 At illa præmonita a matre sua: Da mihi, inquit, hic in disco caput Joannis Baptistæ. 9 Et contristatus est rex: propter juramentum autem, et eos qui pariter recumbebant, jussit dari. 10 Misitque et decollavit Joannem in carcere. 11 Et allatum est caput ejus in disco, et datum est puellæ, et attulit matri suæ. 12 Et accedentes discipuli ejus, tulerunt corpus ejus, et sepelierunt illud: et venientes nuntiaverunt Jesu. 13 Quod cum audisset Jesus, secessit inde in navicula, in locum desertum seorsum: et cum audissent turbæ, secutæ sunt eum pedestres de civitatibus. 14 Et exiens vidit turbam multam, et misertus est eis, et curavit languidos eorum. 15 Vespere autem facto, accesserunt ad eum discipuli ejus, dicentes: Desertus est locus, et hora jam præteriit: dimitte turbas, ut euntes in castella, emant sibi escas. 16 Jesus autem dixit eis: Non habent necesse ire: date illis vos manducare. 17 Responderunt ei: Non habemus hic nisi quinque panes et duos pisces. 18 Qui ait eis: Afferte mihi illos huc. 19 Et cum jussisset turbam discumbere super fœnum, acceptis quinque panibus et duobus piscibus, aspiciens in cælum benedixit, et fregit, et dedit discipulis panes, discipuli autem turbis. 20 Et manducaverunt omnes, et saturati sunt. Et tulerunt reliquias, duodecim cophinos fragmentorum plenos. 21 Manducantium autem fuit numerus quinque millia virorum, exceptis mulieribus et parvulis. 22 Et statim compulit Jesus discipulos ascendere in naviculam, et præcedere eum trans fretum, donec dimitteret turbas. 23 Et dimissa turba, ascendit in montem solus orare. Vespere autem facto solus erat ibi: 24 navicula autem in medio mari jactabatur fluctibus: erat enim contrarius ventus. 25 Quarta enim vigilia noctis, venit ad eos ambulans super mare. 26 Et videntes eum super mare ambulantem, turbati sunt, dicentes: Quia phantasma est. Et præ timore clamaverunt. 27 Statimque Jesus locutus est eis, dicens: Habete fiduciam: ego sum, nolite timere. 28 Respondens autem Petrus, dixit: Domine, si tu es, jube me ad te venire super aquas. 29 At ipse ait: Veni. Et descendens Petrus de navicula, ambulabat super aquam ut veniret ad Jesum. 30 Videns vero ventum validum, timuit: et cum cœpisset mergi, clamavit dicens: Domine, salvum me fac. 31 Et continuo Jesus extendens manum, apprehendit eum: et ait illi: Modicæ fidei, quare dubitasti? 32 Et cum ascendissent in naviculam, cessavit ventus. 33 Qui autem in navicula erant, venerunt, et adoraverunt eum, dicentes: Vere Filius Dei es. 34 Et cum transfretassent, venerunt in terram Genesar. 35 Et cum cognovissent eum viri loci illius, miserunt in universam regionem illam, et obtulerunt ei omnes male habentes: 36 et rogabant eum ut vel fimbriam vestimenti ejus tangerent. Et quicumque tetigerunt, salvi facti sunt.
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Herod Antipas
Herod, tetrarch of Galilee, who had John the Baptist arrested over Herodias, his brother's wife whom he had married, and had him beheaded, and before whom Jesus appeared.
Cited in the guide: Matthew 14:1; Matthew 14:3; Mark 6:17
Herodias
Previously the wife of Herod's brother Philip, whom Herod married, and for whom John the Baptist rebuked him; she bore a grudge against John and sought his death.
Cited in the guide: Matthew 14:3; Mark 6:17; Mark 6:19
John the Baptist
Son of Zechariah, who preached in the wilderness and baptized in the Jordan, pointed to Jesus as the Lamb of God, rebuked Herod over Herodias and was imprisoned and beheaded.
Cited in the guide: Matthew 3:1; Matthew 14:3; Luke 1:13
Cross references (35)
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- 1 Luke 3:1; Mark 8:15; Mark 6:14–29; Luke 9:7–9; Acts 4:27
- 2 John 10:41; Matthew 16:14; Mark 8:28; Matthew 11:11
- 3 Mark 6:17; Luke 3:19–20; Matthew 4:12; Mark 6:19; Matthew 11:2
- 4 Leviticus 20:21; Leviticus 18:16; Mark 6:18; Proverbs 28:1; Deuteronomy 25:5–6
- 5 Matthew 21:32; Matthew 11:9; Matthew 21:26; Mark 14:1–2; Mark 6:19–20
- 6 Mark 6:21–23; Hosea 1:5–6; Genesis 40:20; Matthew 22:24; Esther 1:2–12
- 7 Esther 5:6; Esther 5:3; Esther 7:2
- 8 Proverbs 29:10; Mark 6:24; 1 Kings 18:13; 2 Chronicles 22:2–3; 2 Kings 11:1
- 9 John 19:12–16; Mark 6:14; Mark 6:26; Ecclesiastes 5:2; Daniel 6:14–16
- 10 Revelation 11:7; Luke 9:9; Matthew 17:12; Mark 6:27–29; Jeremiah 2:30
- 11 Revelation 16:6; Revelation 17:6; Jeremiah 22:17; Ezekiel 19:2–3; Ezekiel 16:3–4
- 12 Acts 8:2; Matthew 27:58–61
- 13 Luke 9:10–17; Matthew 14:1–2; Mark 6:30–44; John 6:1–15; Matthew 12:15
- 14 Hebrews 4:15; Matthew 9:36; Hebrews 2:17; Matthew 15:32–39; John 11:33–35
- 15 Matthew 15:23; Mark 8:3; Mark 6:35–36; Luke 9:12
- 16 2 Kings 4:42–44; 2 Corinthians 8:2–3; Ecclesiastes 11:2; John 13:29; Proverbs 11:24
- 17 John 6:5–9; Matthew 15:33–34; Mark 6:37–38; Luke 9:13; Mark 8:4–5
- 19 Mark 8:6–7; 1 Samuel 9:13; Luke 24:30; 1 Timothy 4:4–5; Mark 6:41
- 20 Exodus 16:12; 1 Kings 17:12–16; Mark 6:42–44; Matthew 16:8–10; Exodus 16:8
- 21 Philippians 4:19; 2 Corinthians 9:8–11; Acts 4:4; John 6:10; Acts 4:34
- 22 Mark 6:45–51; John 6:15–21; Matthew 15:39
- 23 Luke 6:12; Mark 6:46; Matthew 26:36; John 6:15–17; Matthew 6:6
- 24 Mark 6:48; John 6:18; Matthew 8:24; Isaiah 54:11
- 25 Job 9:8; John 6:19; Mark 6:48; Psalm 104:3; Matthew 24:43
- 26 Revelation 1:17; Luke 1:11–12; Mark 6:49–50; Daniel 10:6–12; Job 4:14–16
- 27 John 16:33; Revelation 1:17–18; Acts 23:11; Isaiah 41:10; Isaiah 41:4
- 28 John 6:68; Romans 12:3; Matthew 26:33–35; John 13:36–38; Matthew 19:27
- 29 Philippians 4:13; Mark 9:23; Acts 3:16; Luke 17:6; Mark 11:22–23
- 30 Lamentations 3:54–57; 2 Timothy 4:16–17; Mark 14:38; Matthew 8:24–25; Jonah 2:2–7
- 31 James 1:6–8; Psalm 138:7; Genesis 22:14; Matthew 8:26; Matthew 17:20
- 32 Psalm 107:29–30; Mark 4:41; Mark 6:51; John 6:21
- 33 Psalm 2:7; John 11:27; Romans 1:4; John 1:49; Mark 1:1
- 34 Mark 6:53–56; Luke 5:1; John 6:24–25
- 35 Matthew 4:24–25; Mark 2:1–12; Mark 3:8–10; Mark 6:55; Mark 1:28–34
- 36 Luke 6:19; Acts 19:11–12; Matthew 9:20–21; Acts 3:16; Mark 3:10
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The lesson of the Gospel which we have just heard is a lesson of humility to us all, that we may see and know where we are, and whither we must tend and hasten. For that ship which carries the disciples, which was tossed in the waves by a contrary wind, is not without its meaning.
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See Him on every occasion "departing," For not by His appearance only, but by His actions He would have this confirmed, because He knew the devil's craft, and that he would leave nothing undone to destroy this doctrine.
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Soter is a name of five letters; Pater, too, contains five letters; Agape (love), too, consists of five letters; and our Lord, after blessing the five loaves, fed with them five thousand men.
Nevertheless after He was come up into the ship, they who were being borne in her, came saying, "Of a truth Thou art the Son of God." But before this plain discovery of Himself they were troubled, saying, "It is a phantom." But He coming up into the ship took away the fluctuation of mind from their hearts, when they …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
"At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus." For Herod the king, this man's father, he that slew the children, was dead.
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